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Lemonis: ‘IU is a dream job’ BY EVAN HOOPFER ehoopfer@indiana.edu
When Marissa, 18, and Kenzie Lemonis, 13, came back from summer camp, their father, Chris Lemonis, had a surprise for them. Chris, an assistant coach at the University of Louisville for the past eight years, had interviewed for the head-coaching job at IU.
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Anish Alexander played his last set at the WIUX 815 E. Eighth St. location Monday. It consisted primarily of current electronic dance music songs.
41 years celebrated at WIUX house COURTESY PHOTO
IU Baseball Coach Chris Lemonis speaks at an introductory press conference Tuesday. Lemonis will make $250,000 a year under his new five-year contract.
“I was like, ‘Alright, OK,’” Marissa, who will be a senior in high school this fall, said of her reaction. “I mean, we knew this would be happening soon. I’m happy for him. He deserves it.” Lemonis got the call from IU Athletic Director Fred Glass while driving down the road on July 2; he was offered the job. Lemonis accepted, becoming the program’s 24th head coach. At an introductory press conference Tuesday, Lemonis expressed what this job means to him. “Believe me, it’s kind of a dream job,” Lemonis said. “Just to have the beautiful stadium and the beautiful campus, and now they’ve had success. There’s a lot of good things here.” This will be the first time Lemonis will be the head coach of a program. For his first head-coaching gig, he will make an annual salary of $250,000 a year for five years, making him the second highest paid baseball coach in the Big Ten, Glass said. “Most of the contract stuff went right over my head,” Lemonis said. “I was like ‘Yes, I’ll take it.’” The Myrtle Beach, S.C., native is replacing arguably the most successful head coach in IU baseball’s history. Tracy Smith left the program on June 24 to become the head coach at Arizona State University. During the past two seasons, IU has gone 93-31. The Hoosiers went to the College World Series for the first time in school history in 2013 and was the first Big Ten team to be named a national seed in 2014. Glass said usually when a coaching search is taking place, it’s because the predecessor was fired and not doing well. But for IU baseball, the program did so well it got the attention of the prestigious Arizona State program, who enticed Smith to leave Bloomington for Tempe, Ariz. “I wasn’t sure Tracy would ever leave,” Lemonis said. “Everybody knows what a great job he did.” Lemonis is using that recent Hoosier success in recruiting, he said. He was the recruiting coordinator during his time at Louisville and helped the Cardinals reach three College World Series during his tenure. Lemonis said he has several contacts in the Chicago area, and he’s had success recruiting there in the past. But most of all, he said IU will focus on its home state. “Number one, two and three, we’re really trying to attack the state of Indiana,” Lemonis said. “This state has great players everywhere, and we’d like to get a couple more guys to play here.” As for what kind of player Lemonis likes to recruit, he said he likes bigger players who have speed and athleticism. “Guys who can run and move,” he said. “We want to try and get some guys that can do a little bit of everything.” After saying he likes big and strong players in the press conference, Glass, a 1980 graduate of IU, said, “Chris just described my athletic package. Too bad I don’t have any eligibility left.”
WIUX house ends 41-year history as radio station moves to a new location on campus BY CARMEN HEREDIA RODRIGUEZ caheredi@indiana.edu
A golden CD with “DA END” written in marker sat on top of the stack of papers radio DJ Susan Tanney picked up as she headed out of the studio on the second floor of 815 E. Eighth St. For Tanney, her exit marked the final radio show of her undergraduate education. For the WIUX building, Tanney’s exit marked the final noon show broadcast out of the studio on the second floor of the house that harbored the University’s student radio station for 41 years. IU’s student radio station WIUX aired its final broadcast out of 815 E. Eighth St. Monday. Current and former staff had a final opportunity to go on-air in the studio that has served as the station’s headquarters since 1973. “There have been many generations of college students who have come through and done what we’re doing now here,” Tanney said. WIUX will be relocated to 715 E. Eighth St., which was previously used as a residence. The University has said it will pay for the renovations needed in the house to accommodate the radio station, WIUX general manager Carolyn Suna said. “We kind of found out so many other college radio stations are going through this process, but other universities are not being as supportive as IU has been financially and at least in providing a space actually, too,” Suna said. The relocation of WIUX is part of the University’s larger plan to clear six homes from the area to construct a new fraternity house for Phi Gamma Delta. The house on 815 E. Eighth St. will be moved to a vacant lot owned by the University. Although the fraternity has yet to raise the adequate funds to begin construction, Associate Vice President of Communications Mark Land said the University wants to clear the land in the most efficient manner. “If you’re going to move people from one building to another, summer is the best time because
it’s the least disruptive,” Land said. WIUX has experienced several relocations, including the move from 617 E. Eighth St. to 815 E. Eighth St. in 1973 because of arson. Tanney said while the station has undergone several changes in its history, the essence of the broadcast hasn’t changed. “I think that even though the technology has changed, even though the music has changed and the things we’re talking about on the talk shows have changed, the general spirit of what we’re doing as a radio station has remained the same,” she said. The move to 715 E. Eighth St. will be temporary for WIUX. University officials and the station’s leadership are discussing the possibility of WIUX moving into Franklin Hall. Should the station move into Franklin Hall, 715 E. Eighth St. will return to residential property, IU Director of Space Planning Karen Correll said. Former WIUX sports director Daniel Karell said the collaboration between different student media would be a positive step for the radio station. “I think that’s going to be a huge added bonus that freshmen are going to be able to do news or print or magazine, radio and TV all in the same building, all on campus,” Karell said. The station will be off-air for the relocation until Thursday. Suna said the station should be ready to broadcast in the new location for its Alumni Weekend, beginning July 25. Although Suna will not be able to spend her senior year broadcasting from the second story of 815 E. Eighth St., she said it is not the building that has defined her experience at WIUX. “It’s not this building that has made my past three years at WIUX really special, it’s been the people, and it’s always been the people,” Suna said. “It always is going to be the people that makes WIUX what it is.”
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Susan Tanney finshes up her radio show Monday at WIUX as Anish Alexander prepares to go on air.
Alumni weekend to celebrate WIUX past and look toward the future in new studio BY ALEXIS DAILY aledaily@indiana.edu
The annual WIUS/WIUX Alumni Weekend will return to Bloomington radio Friday on IU student radio station WIUX-FM 99.1. WIUX’s history at IU, beginning in January 1963, entered a new chapter this month with a physical move of the radio station studios from its 41-year-long home at 815 E. Eighth St. to 715 E. Eighth St. Carolyn Suna, IU senior and general manager of WIUX, said the alumni will do the first radio shows out of the new house, which she feels is the best way to christen it as WIUX’s home. “It’s unreal to see the people who laid the foundation come back and do shows because they haven’t lost a beat,” Suna said. “I listened to part of Alumni Weekend online last year, and it was incredible and is definitely some of our best programming.” Don Worsham, a former DJ at the station, said he has attended previous Alumni Weekends and usually 50 to 75 alumni are present. He said it is nice to see old friends, go to Nick’s English Hut and to meet the next generation of WIUX broadcasters. “By 1970 standards, WIUS could have competed in any major market with an extremely well-managed news department, a very creative team for commercial production and a well-conceived format playing Top 40 and album rock,” Worsham said. The station changed its call let-
ters to WIUX in March 2005 when the station obtained an FCC license to commemorate WQAX, an independent radio station that broadcast in Bloomington from 1973 to 1993. “I love coming back and seeing IU again and seeing all that has and hasn’t changed,” 1975 graduate Greg Barman said. 1974 graduate Bob Rodenkirk said his experience of joining WIUS was different from most. He said he wanted to be a walk-on football player, but, because of a knee injury during practice, he was unable to play. “One of the guys I was with worked at WIUS and basically dared me to do a better job,” Rodenkirk said. “I went down to the station to have my first broadcast and was hooked.” Rodenkirk said his favorite memory of WIUS was the staff putting him in a bathtub on his 21st birthday during Little 500 week. “I double majored in history and journalism, but everyone knows my real major was radio,” he said. Greg Barman, a 1975 graduate, said he is more impressed with what hasn’t changed in the station — the current staff ’s dedication and care of the station and the idea that radio can still be entertaining and relevant. Worsham said that during Alumni Weekend former student DJs are in charge of the radio station, and listeners are able to send song requests to wiusrequest@ gmail.com during the radio show 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
Harvest Festival returns to community orchard for second year FROM IDS REPORTS
It’s free of charge, just bring your own plate and a dish to share with others. The Harvest Festival will be returning for its second year from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Bloomington Community Orchard. According to the Bloomington Community Orchard website, the orchard festival will be filled with face painting, live music and other activities. The event will kick off with a harvest tour and a haiku contest.
“The haiku contest is really fun for people,” Bloomington Orchard Communications Team Member Megan Betz said. “It’s really funny to watch people get competitive and cruise around the orchard for inspiration. A potluck will follow, featuring a shortcake bar complemented by fruit grown in the orchard. The Harvest Festival only has one rule: BYOP — bring your own plate, that is. “In traditional orchard fashion, it kicks off with a big potluck,” Betz said. “Last year, the potluck was
really great, and it gives everyone a sense of community.” The festival will also feature live music and family-friendly events for younger children, including honeybee hive lessons, which offer an educational look into how honey is made and put on our shelves. “We have an education team that’s really committed to educating children in particular,” Betz said. Entry to the festival is free, but the orchard will be accepting donations. The rain date is set for
Sunday. According to Betz, the festival had about 60 people in attendance in 2013. “The orchard is still young; we started in 2010,” Betz said. “So having the harvest festival is really meaningful for us because we’re a volunteer organization.” More information on the festival and the Bloomington Community Orchard visit bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org. Victoria Lutgring